Daisy Gilardini is an award-winning wildlife photographer known for her photos of Antarctica and the Arctic. She has received numerous prestigious photography awards including from BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year and the International Photography Award. Her photos often feature close-up views that showcase the textures, features and emotions of the animals. Through her photography, she aims to spread messages about respecting and caring for the environment. She donates her work to environmental causes and organizations.

1. Daisy Gilardini
By Grace Ong
Class ANN3A

2. What she is most known for? Most
important (or most famous) work?
Her work received awards such as “IPA
International Photography Award”, “BBC Wildlife
Photographer of the Year”, “Photography Master
Award”, “Travel Photography of the Year”, and
“Nature’s Best”.
BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year was
consider as the “Oscars” of nature photography
photo contests.
Her work is known for the wildlife in Antarctica
and the Arctic.

3. Her Award Winning Photo

4. Specific information about the
photographer’s style of photography.
Has their style (or subject matter)
change over the course of their career?
She visited 65 over countries before falling in
love with Antarctica and spent most of her time in
the Polar regions.

5. Contribution to the field of
photography?
Her passion for the natural world grew into a
lifelong commitment spread messages around
the world to respect and care for our fragile
planet.

6. How has his/her work influence or
make a positive change?
She dedicated herself to help the environment.
In the fall of 2009, she was a member of the
Emerging League of iLCP, the International
League of Conservation Photographers.
In 2010, she was a helper at “The Explorer Club”,
it contributed to scientific knowledge in
geographical exploration and/or other related
sciences.

7. How does he/she make a living?
(assignment, stock photo, prints,
workshops, etc)
She offers assignments to others to join her in a
journey to photographing in the Arctic and many
other places.
She also has a book called Polar Wonders.
She sells prints with many different sizes.
She also sponsors many different brands like
Nikon, Energizer, The North Face, etc.

8. Special techniques used ( like lighting,
color, black and white, etc.)
Many of her photos are under natural lighting and
many are close up views. Her close up views
mainly show a lot of emotion from the creatures,
the distant shots are to show action or their
physical appearance, both their natural colors or
shadows.

9. How distinguish his/her work from
others?
The photographer I’ve chosen, loves to have her
shots either taken at a distance or really up close
to the face or body of the animal.

10. How do you respond to the
photographer’s work? What did you
learn from him/her?
The up close shots of the animals is what drew
me to her photos, the expressions of the animals
(when they aren’t fierce), and the different
features in every single animal.

11. Choose 5 of the photographer's works
and talk about the
technical/aesthetics/importance of
these photos.

12. Close up views help to see the
expressions on the creatures face,
especially the details of their facial
structure.

13. Rules of third, the bear is not directly in
the center, therefore we can see a bit of
their surroundings.

14. The point of interest leads us to the
bear, the camera angle taken of the
bear is against the sunlight, making the
it look very dark.

15. The close up shot shows the texture of
the bird, how smooth its feathers are on
their body, and the details of the beak.

16. References
http://www.daisygilardini.com/about-2/about/